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People don’t really care about of telling the time with those expensive mechanical watches. A quartz watch with a digital display is much easier to tell the ti
by jbandela1 3y ago
People don’t really care about of telling the time with those expensive mechanical watches.
A quartz watch with a digital display is much easier to tell the time as well as more accurate.
- antiframe 3y agoPeople don't always want the optimal solution for every problem. I want a watch that is mechanical yet accurate enough and readable enough to function as a watch. I am not alone in this. In the realms of cars, I drive a $15k used Subaru because it gets me places, is easy and cheap to maintain, and functional for cargo and other uses. Others drive fancy beautiful automobiles that do less, cost more money, but fulfill other artistic needs of theirs. For some it's cars. For others watches. For yet others clothes. I for one am glad that not every problem is solved perfectly efficiently. It feels _humam_ that way.
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- ProxCoques 3y agoDepends what you mean by "telling the time" though. How many minutes you have left from 8:58 to 9:34? Analog watch is easier for that stuff. Also approximations - quick glance to see if the long hand is getting close to the hour, the quarter hour, noon, etc. No number parsing needed, it's just gestalt.
- shiroiuma 3y agoExactly; the point of wearing a watch isn't to tell the time, it's to signal wealth or otherwise be fashionable. Honestly, the thing could be completely broken or dead and it really wouldn't matter. It would make more sense if men just stopped pretending these things are functional, and started wearing fancy bracelets instead of watches.
- defrost 3y agoI'm pretty sure 2025 will see the rise of the Koteka in western society, especially since it doubles up as a sundial.
- shiroiuma 3y agoThat's a bit of a stretch I think, but it seems like tattoos are now the way men (and also women) try to show individuality, since their clothing choices are so boring.
- defrost 3y agoVery true, but if the history of fashion teaches us anything it's certainly that nothing lasts forever and what once was often returns. Tattoos will soon reach the status of wallpaper at the old people's home and the codpiece will rise again! ( Along with some inevitable 'stretch' ).